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<\/button> <\/section>\n<article class=\"single-article content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__container js-single-article-content\">\n<header class=\"single-article__header \" readability=\"24.825708061002\">\n<div class=\"single-article__header-content\" readability=\"33.648648648649\">\n<ul class=\"single-article__eyebrow\">\n<li class=\"single-article__category\"> <a class=\"single-article__category-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/digital-rights-groups-oppose-stop-csam-act-encryption\/\"> <span>Uncategorized<\/span> <\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> The organizations say a reintroduced version of the bill would \u201cbreak\u201d encryption for most Americans and make it impossible for end-to-end encrypted service providers to avoid lawsuits. <\/p>\n<p>  <br \/>\n<audio id=\"audio-player\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-tts-cdn.api.scpnewsgrp.com\/cyberscoop\/84872\/english.openai.mp3\"><\/audio> <\/p>\n<div readability=\"11\">\n<div>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>  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https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-5.jpg?resize=1067,675 1067w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-5.jpg?resize=1332,843 1332w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\"><figcaption> (Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"50.71333101892\"><body readability=\"101.28593040847\"><\/p>\n<p>Digital rights groups are urging Senate leaders not to move forward with a bill that would impose new regulations on companies around child sexual abuse material, arguing that the legislation could be a privacy nightmare for Americans.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the groups \u2013 which include the American Civil Liberties Union, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Defending Rights and Dissent and RootsAction \u2013 say the STOP CSAM Act, reintroduced in May, \u201cwalks back a number of important privacy protections that had been included in a previous version of the bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current bill creates enormous incentives for platforms to stop offering encrypted services that are critical for enabling all of us to have private conversations and securely store files from our most personal moments, like photos from a child\u2019s birthday,\u201d the letter reads.. \u201cWhile all of our groups want to stop the harmful transmission of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), its transmission is already illegal, and these modifications to the bill do nothing more than undermine privacy and security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Stop CSAM Act would <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/stop-csam-act-senate-judiciary-hawley-durbin-encryption\/\">impose new requirements<\/a> on companies to prevent the hosting and distribution of child sexual abuse material on their platforms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It expands companies\u2019 legal obligations by requiring them to report instances of such material on their sites to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. It also introduces stricter privacy protections for children who testify in court. Additionally, and would require businesses with more than 1 million unique monthly visitors or users or $50 million in annual revenue to submit annual reports to the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>It would also seek to alter immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for \u201cinteractive computer services,\u201d allowing victims to file civil lawsuits against companies that fail to remove CSAM content from their platforms in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The bill includes language specifying that \u201cany person who is a victim of the intentional, knowing, or reckless hosting or storing of child pornography or making child pornography available to any person by a provider of an interactive computer service, and who suffers personal injury as a result of such hosting, storing, or making available, regardless of when the injury occurred, may bring a civil action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Digital rights groups say that the new version of the legislation includes \u201crecklessness\u201d as a legal standard for liability and by applying it to any \u201cinteractive computer service,\u201d the legislation would capture virtually all applications that rely on end-to-end encryption.<\/p>\n<p>That in turn could open up providers of these services to civil lawsuits for hosting material that they can\u2019t view without breaking the encryption of their users.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c[The bill] goes much further than current law and threatens to punish any service that works to keep its users secure, including those that do their best to eliminate and report CSAM,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2025\/06\/oppose-stop-csam-protecting-kids-shouldnt-mean-breaking-tools-keep-us-safe\">wrote<\/a> India McKinney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. \u201cThe bill applies to \u2018interactive computer services,\u2019 which broadly includes private messaging and email apps, social media platforms, cloud storage providers, and many other internet intermediaries and online service providers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear whether the groups\u2019 warnings on data privacy will have much influence in this Congress. Politically, forcing private companies do more to counter child sexual abuse material on their platforms and websites has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protectchildren.ca\/en\/press-and-media\/news-releases\/2020\/csam-survey-results\">broadly popular<\/a> with the public, and online child safety is a top issue for congressional Republicans, who control both houses of Congress. Grassley is not known as a strong advocate of unrestricted encryption. He previously led a <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/new-encryption-bill-dianne-feinstein-chuck-grassley-senate-judiciary-comittee\/\">bipartisan congressional effort in 2018<\/a> to develop legislation that would would have compelled companies to grant law enforcement access to encrypted communications in investigations. <\/p>\n<p>Another bill introduced this Congress, the Take It Down Act, carried similar take down requirements for companies around AI-generated nonconsensual deepfake pornography. Though many of the same groups loudly opposed the measure on similar privacy grounds, it ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/take-it-down-act-passes-house-first-amendment-encryption\/\">passed<\/a> 402-2 in the House and unanimously in the Senate before being swiftly signed into law by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The letter to Grassley and Durbin emphasizes that private communications \u2013 underpinned by strong digital encryption \u2013 are critical to healthy, functioning democratic societies and have many benefits to marginalized or targeted populations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why encrypted services are popular amongst journalists who use encrypted messages to contact their sources, protesters seeking to organize to raise their voices against unjust government action, doctors who use it to speak with patients, domestic violence victims who rely on completely private communications to escape dangerous situations at home, and businesses discussing finances with clients,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cBut there would also be severe consequences for groups that are being targeted by governments domestically and globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"4\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. 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The Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header class=\"post-item__meta\" readability=\"2.595041322314\">\n<h3 class=\"post-item__title\"> <a class=\"post-item__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/ftc-take-it-down-act-deepfake-data-software-congress\/\"> FTC wants a new, segregated software system to police deepfake porn <\/a> <\/h3>\n<p> The Republican chair told Congress that the agency will need specialized software, personnel and expertise to enforce the newly passed Take It Down Act. <\/p>\n<div class=\"post-item__byline\"> <span class=\"post-item__author\"> <span>By <\/span> <a class=\"post-item__author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/author\/derek-johnson\/\"> Derek B. Johnson <\/a> <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <\/header>\n<p> <\/article>\n<article class=\"post-item post-item--popular-stories-cards \">\n<figure class=\"post-item__thumbnail\"> <a class=\"post-item__thumbnail-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/stop-csam-act-senate-judiciary-hawley-durbin-encryption\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"252\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-3.jpg?resize=252%2C168&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-ratio-16-9-sm size-ratio-16-9-sm wp-post-image\" alt decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-7.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-7.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-7.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-7.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-7.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-7.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-7.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-7.jpg?resize=252,168 252w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-7.jpg?resize=506,337 506w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-7.jpg?resize=1013,675 1013w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/digital-rights-groups-sound-alarm-on-stop-csam-act-7.jpg?resize=1265,843 1265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\"> <\/a><figcaption class=\"screen-reader-text\"> The Stop CSAM Act, first introduced in 2023 by Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., (above) and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., would impose several new requirements on companies to prevent the hosting and distribution of child sexual abuse material on their platforms. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header class=\"post-item__meta\">\n<h3 class=\"post-item__title\"> <a class=\"post-item__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/stop-csam-act-senate-judiciary-hawley-durbin-encryption\/\"> Legislative push for child online safety runs afoul of encryption advocates (again) <\/a> <\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-item__byline\"> <span class=\"post-item__author\"> <span>By <\/span> <a class=\"post-item__author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/author\/derek-johnson\/\"> Derek B. 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